Tag: ecology

Simply designed composting toilets are a perfectly legal and sustainable option throughout the country. Just make sure you follow the directions!There was so much to take in. Without Starbucks at every corner and big box eyesores in every community Cuba has been leading a green revolution since the fall of the Soviet Union. That’s when the country was largely cut off from foreign aid and catapulted into crisis mode or what is known as the ‘Special Period’ ending in the year 2000. With the US embargo still in full swing (Yes, the US has only stopped travel restrictions for Americans and no longer views it an enemy nation), the country is exemplary in its sustainable design, organic, localized food production, small scale business, appropriate technology and all round inventive ingenuity making do with what can be found, fixed or retrofitted…sometimes all three! Continue reading “Cuba: Simple Solutions for Simple Living”

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Hi, I'm Dalia and I love to travel, handmake all things slow textiles like plant-based dyes, local wool knits and felts, write and practice permaculture beyond solely food production. Here you'll find my latest and greatest adventures in a quest to celebrate and reclaim making with nature and inspire an ecological renaissance. Find me on Facebook and Ravelry by searching "Wildcrafted Wool."

What is Permaculture?

Despite the many definitions, here goes...Permaculture is a contraction of the words "permanent," and “culture.” It advocates developing permanent, self-sufficient systems based on natural ecosystems. Developed by Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in the late 1970's, it originated as a solution to the destructive and toxic agri-industry. Permaculture means whole regenerative design that nourishes people, planet and soul ecologically, socially, and economically.

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Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose...

“Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it”—Bertolt Brecht

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and value of nothing”—Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is not the strongest animal that survives, nor the fastest but the one most adaptable to change” –Leon C. Megginson, paraphrasing Charles Darwin

“…the individual artist moves from the private narratives of self to the public discourse of art as a tool to empower and transform the lives of women and their communities…I have found the intense need to live in beauty and create meaningful works of art. The need to create forms of beauty allows the artist to transcend horror, improve society and envision a brighter future” –Marjorie Agosin, Stitching Resistance

“Permaculture is that art of the possible” –Graham Bell, The Permaculture Garden

“This might well be the hidden reason why permaculture appeals to me so much—it encourages creativity and individuality. No matter how hard some might try to deny it, no matter how forcefully we have been squeezed into one mold or another, we are at heart all wonderfully creative individuals. Permaculture allows us to celebrate this.”—Jenni Blackmore, Permaculture for the Rest of Us